Movies that make you laugh and cry

Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton/Valerie Faris, 2006)

The Hoovers are a very funny family. Darkly funny, yes, but still funny. Failed motivational speaker and self-help author Richard (Greg Kinnear) and understandably neurotic stay-at-home mom Sheryl (Toni Collette) have two children: Dwayne (Paul Dano), a teenager who’s a Nietzsche fan and took a vow of silence; and Olive (Abigail Bresling), a young girl who’s obsessed with winning a local beauty pageant. To boot, they’re joined by drug-addicted grandpa Edwin (Alan Arkin) and suicidal gay uncle Frank (Steve Carell).